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South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
Park Chung Hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.
A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.
A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and bring�
The establishment of a Military Assistance Advisory Group in South Vietnam marks the beginning of American involvement in the conflict.
South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.
Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.